Rasheedah Phillips

Rasheedah Phillips is the Director of Housing at PolicyLink. Rasheedah has dedicated their career to fighting for social justice and supporting organizations that promote racial justice, leadership development, and community-lawyering.

Phillips began their career as a Workshop Facilitator at the Children's Aid Society. In this role, they facilitated workshops on topics related to child welfare and family law.

In 2007, Phillips became Managing Attorney of Housing Policy at Community Legal Services. In this role, they worked to ensure that low-income families had access to safe and affordable housing. Rasheedah also developed training and consulting engagements that supported advocate and organizational capacity building in housing policy.

In 2016, Phillips joined the Shriver Center on Poverty Law as a Senior Advocate Resources & Training Attorney. In this role, they organized and served as faculty for Shriver Center in-person and online courses promoting racial justice, leadership development, community-lawyering, and affirmative advocacy. Rasheedah also built and strengthened strategic relationships and business development for the Shriver Center's training and consulting practice.

Phillips is currently the Director of Housing at PolicyLink. In this role, they are working to create equitable housing policies that will help to close the racial wealth gap.

Rasheedah Phillips attended Temple University for both their undergraduate and law degrees. Rasheedah earned a BA in Criminal Justice and then went on to earn their Juris Doctor from the James E. Beasley School of Law at Temple University.

Rasheedah Phillips works with Crystal Yang - Director of Donor Engagement, Chione L. Flegal - Managing Director, and Vanice Dunn - Vice President of Communications. Rasheedah Phillips reports to Michael Mcafee, President and CEO.